Author: Russell Banks

Quotes

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

- Russell Banks

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

- Russell Banks

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

- Russell Banks

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

- Russell Banks

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

- Russell Banks

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

- Russell Banks

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

- Russell Banks

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

- Russell Banks

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